General American Tank Car Corp. v. Melville

Plaintiff (appellee) recovered a judgment against defendant (appellant) for $35,000 damages on account of personal injuries caused by a collision between a street car on which plaintiff was riding as conductor and a train of railroad cars pushed by a locomotive engine that defendant was propelling along a switch track across a public street in the city of East Chicago in which the street railroad was operated, while moving the cars from one part of its factory yards to another part. Overruling defendant’s motion for judgment on the answers to interrogatories, but rendering judgment against it…